Basic information below is translated from French, the language of the datebook. My own comments are within the square brackets. I have added missing information, which I have surmised from my own knowledge of the family, in rounded parentheses.January 3 1940: Death of Albert von Margutti.
[Cousin from Trieste, officer in the Austrian army, worked as an interpreter/aide--with the title of "Baron"--in the court of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. After WWI Trieste became Italian, and neither the Austrian nor the Italian government would pay his army retirement pension. Our grandmother Daisy, his cousin by marriage, went to the Austrian consul in San Francisco and arranged for him to receive Red Cross food packages as a "displaced person." This started a long friendship with Albert, who wrote often to our father in a "paternal" way.]January 5 1939: Marriage of Jacques Prudhomme and Françoise Dalby.
January 6 1906: Birthday of Hertha [Miklaucic].
January 17 1943: Death of Jacques Chartrey.
* January 19 1910: Remarriage of Lisette's mother to Mr. Gautier.
January 20 1940: Death of Jean Dumont.
January 24 1907: Marriage of Paul and Aline Chartrey.
January 29 1911: Birthday of Odette Mercier.
January 31 1940: Death of Paulette Mercier.
February 3: Birthday of Mario Krisper.
February 13 1923: Death of "Tante Chartrey."
February 13 1934: Death of Juliette LeChantre.
February 13 1938: Death of Paul Gautier.
February 15 1937: Death of Mme. de Lesseps.
February 16 1915: Death of the father of Jules (Fonte).
[Jules was Lisette's husband.]February 17 1936: Birthday of Genviève Lazarus.
February 17 1942: Death of Mme. Grassière.
February 23 1935: Death of Alexandra. [Gautier?]
February 27 1940: Marriage of Jean Reynaud and Germaine Lejeune.
February 28 1941: Death of Mercedes de Gatines.
March 8 1926: Marriage of Alexandra. [Gautier?]
March 9 1893: Birthday of Marguerite Dauvergne.
March 14 1910: Birthday of Simone Chartrey.
March 14 1923: Death of Henri Mercier.
March 16 1940: Marriage of Françoise Gregoire and Armand Crisanti.
March 20 1912: Marriage of Marthe Scherrer and Gustave Gregoire.
* March 20 1947: Death of Lisette's mother.
[She was born Laure Chartrey.]March 21 1860: Birthday of Georges Chartrey.
March 26 1938: Marriage of Jean Gilbert Augustin and Clothilde Boiton.
March 28 1901: Birthday of Jean Mercier.
April 3 1947: Death of Aline Chartrey.
April 4 1933: Death of mother of Ida (Margutti).
April 5 1925: Birthday of Jackie Petit.
April 10 1947: Death of Jeanne Flette.
* April 7 1899: Death of Lisette's grandpapa.
April 15 1878: Birthday of Jules (Fonte).
[Lisette's husband.]April 16 1887: Birthday of Andrée Buisson.
April 16 1929: Death of Mme. Prudhomme.
April 19 1925: Birthday of J.C. Charrier.
April 19 1942: Death of Mme. Lelarge.
April 19 1944: Death (?) of Paul Chartrey.
April 27 1928: Death of Richard.
April 28 1927: Death of Mr. Prudhomme.
April 29 1939: Marriage of Jacqueline Chartrey and Jacques Gratzmuller.
* April 30 1863: Birthday of Lisette's mother. [Laure Chartrey.]
May 1 1864: Birthday of Renée.
May 3 1939: Death of Mme. Scherrer.
May 10 1883: P.G.
May 11 1894: Birthday of Fleuriette Mercier.
May 14 1928: Death of Emilie Chartrey.
* May 22 1906: Birthday of Victor Mario Margutti.
May 25 1934: Françoise Lazarus.
May 26 1871: Birthday of Yvonne Prudhomme.
May 27 1866: Birthday of Jacques Chartrey.
* June 9 1885: Birthday of Louis (Margutti).
[Lisette's brother, our grandfather.]June 17: Birthday of Edmée Spire.
June 18 1940: Death of Gilbert Vieillard.
June 19 1939: Marriage of Jacques Buisson and Marie Rose Laurence Petit Didier (?)
June 21 1924: Marriage of Jean Mercier and Yvonne Keeble.
June 25 1938: Marriage of Madeleine Grégoire and Robert Fasset.
* June 29 1931: Marriage of Louis and Janette Margutti. Celebrated by Father Paul Gros.
[A second marriage for Louis, after a divorce from his first wife Daisy Rodust was obtained.]* July 6 1945: Death of Jules (Fonte).
* July 6 1947: Birthday of Laura Elisabeth Margutti, Redlands, California. [sic]
July 7 1911: Birthday of Jacqueline Chartrey.
July 7 1938: Camescasse - Gratzmuller marriage
July 11 1909: Birthday of Janot Flette.
July 15: Birthday of Edith Withers
July 17 1923: Birthday of Jacques Mercier, Yanni R. Mercier, France Baissec.
* July 17 1938: Death of Mr. Gautier
[Laure Chartrey's second husband]July 17 1945: Marriage of Luz Cordelat and Hubert Prat
July 19 1939: Francine Camescasse, Jean Pierre Camescasse, Patrice
July 19 1947: Death of "Tante Aline Levy"
* July 21 1831: Birthday & feast day of Lisette's grandpapa; feast day of Victor.
* August 1 1889: Birthday of Victor (Margutti)
[Louis and Lisette's brother.]August 1 1904: Birthday of Alexandra. (Gautier?)
August 3 1932: Marriage of Martha Dumont.
August 5 1934: Death of Louis Lelarge, brother of Janette.
August 5 1940: Death of Mme. de La Haye Josselin.
August 11 1941: Birthday of François Xavier Hulot.
August 11 1913: Birthday of Jacquot Chartrey.
August 14 1939: Birthday of Aline Chartrey at Port Said.
August 15: Myriam de Lesseps married to Huéppe.
August 27 1942: Death of "Tante Yvonne."
* September 7 1945: Birthday of Marilyn (Margutti)
* September 17 1908: Death of Victor (Margutti)
[Lisette's youngest brother, who died in a train accident in California only a few months after coming to the U.S. to be with his brother Louis. The record of Victor's entry to the U.S. is in the Ellis Island database.]September 17 1906: Birthday of Janette Margutti.
[Second wife of Louis.]October 10 1933: Marriage of Jacqueline Scherrer and Pierre Lenoir.
October 11: Birthday of Paulette Camescasse.
October 12 1931: Marriage of Georges Prudhomme to Odette Fourrier.
October 12 1940: Marriage of Anne Marie Saison to Jean Hulot.
October 17: Birthday of Maria Miklaucic.
October 27 1917: Marriage of Ida and Albert (Margutti).
October 28 1902: Birthday of Jeannette Mercier.
October 30 1918: Birthday of Michel Saison.
October 30 1939: Death of Bor-- de Rober.
* October 31 1927: Birthday of Jean-Claude (Margutti)
[His parents were officially married in 1931, after Louis' divorce from Daisy. He died in an auto accident in the early 1950's, shortly after his marriage, leaving his widow with an infant.]November 1 1896: Birthday of Julia Chartrey.
November 3 1937: Death of J. Cammescasse.
November 10 1886: Birthday of M. Dumont.
November 21 1936: Death of Amont.
* November 25 1935: Marriage of Victor (Margutti) to Mary Belle Dibble.
[As we know, they actually married 3 years earlier, in Reno, Nevada, but kept it quiet until she had graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. Neither one of their mothers was happy to hear that the young folks had been so underhanded, but they both sent out written announcements on this date. Mary Belle supported both Victor--the medical student--and his mother and grandmother from her earnings as a social worker, resettling newcomers to the Bay Area during the period of migration to California described in John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath." She remembered that they could only buy food once a month, because that was when she got paid. Later, when World War II started, she worked for Lockheed Aircraft company, eventually becoming a project manager for the Lockheed Constellation airplane, helping to move it from the drawing board to the production line. As the daughter of a professional engineer, dealing with blueprints and slide rules was second nature to her.]November 28 1869: Birthday of Albert (Margutti).
November 30 1935: Marriage of Eleonore Miklaucic and Serge Dexport.
November 30 1908: Birthday of Eleonore [Miklaucic].
December 2 1923: Death of Mr. Laurent.
December 3 1860: Birthday of P. Camescasse.
Decemberr 6 1938: Birthday of Alice Augustin.
December 8 1926: Birthday of Charly Gautier.
*December 9 1936: Death of Mrs. Rodust, age 96 years.
[Victor Mario Margutti's maternal grandmother, born Mary Remarque. When she came to San Francisco from Rochester, New York, to work as a seamstress in the City of Paris store, she began using the name Marie. Her first husband, who died soon after their marriage, was named Meyer. When she married again, the papers listed it as Meyer-Rodust, not Remarque-Rodust.]December 18 1878: Birthday of Emilia Camescasse.
December 21 1935: Baptism of Odette Mercier.
December 21 1952: Death of Charly [Gautier?]
December 22 1936: Death of Amélie Camescasse.
December 26 1902: Marriage of Yvonne Prudhomme.
December 27 1934: Marriage of Simone and Claude Boilot.
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Victor Chartrey, who gave an Egyptian stone to the Louvre, shown below, was Laure Chartrey's father. Tradition says that when she visited him in Egypt after finishing her education in France, he introduced her to Mr. Margutti, from Trieste, who was working with him in the Suez Canal Company. Laure named her youngest child after her father, and his name was also carried on into her grandchildren's generation.
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